Meeting by Design is a book which enables people to rethink how they see meetings. As a result, it equips them with the ability to design shorter, more effective, more inspiring ‘meetings’. And these may include other means to deliver what they are trying to achieve.
Meeting by Design is based on extensive research data and provides clear guidance on how to improve meetings. It uses the transition from physical meetings to virtual meetings as an opportunity to adopt new approaches. It argues that we should not unthinkingly simply move the off-line on-line. Particularly when the off-line version is so poor. Instead, we should start with ‘why’ and design what we need to deliver it. This will create greater engagement, faster progress, more creative input, and far better your use of time. You can access a free pdf of the book by clicking the image on the right. Or you can purchase Kindle or paper copies via Amazon.
If you are looking for the appendices for the book, you can find these below.
Further Information
Meeting by Design was written almost a decade ago. But the principles it promotes are more relevant today than they were when it was written. Meetings have become virtual. Design thinking is being adopted. People do need to engage in continuous learning. And meetings are the things that will hold this together, and yet they still underperform.
There is much that Meeting by Design still has to say to those who realise the importance of improving their online meetings. A few of the technological examples may be a bit dated, but surprisingly fewer than you might imagine.
Meeting by Design is now available free of charge as a PDF for anyone who has the desire to read it. I encourage you to do so. It still has the capacity to challenge our paradigms – perhaps even more so, since the current changes in our World make shifting these paradigms even more important. The meeting toolchest is the embodiment of the resources and ideas that support making ‘Meeting by Design’ a reality for you, your people, and your organisation.
Appendices: Please click on the links below to access:
1: Key findings from Meetings Survey
2: Key findings from Travel and Web-Meetings Survey
3: Survey guidance for reviewing your organisation
4: Basic iFrames for multi-channel work in web-based meetings
5: Steps to practical implementations of the conclusions
6: A generic vision for the transition of greater use of web-based meetings
7: Using software for web-based collaboration – getting started
8: Web-based developments that support Tag Meetings
9: Other relevant supporting software *
10: Relevant supporting hardware *
11: Facilitation interventions for physical and virtual meetings
12: Available training courses **
13: Useful links
14: Meeting review tools
15: Further reading *
*Link courtesy of Collaboration Superpowers
**Link Courtesy of Lucid Meetings